Essay:Differences Between Homeschoolers and Public Schoolers
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There are some fundamental differences of significance between homeschoolers and public schoolers:
- Homeschoolers do not stop learning upon receipt of a diploma; most public schoolers do not try to learn outside of school
- Homeschoolers vote at three times the rate of public schoolers, when they become of voting age
- Homeschoolers engage in less deceit than public schoolers, and are less easily amused by it
- Homeschoolers form fewer cliques and gangs than public schoolers
- Homeschoolers are less amused by profanity, and rarely have the obsessive profanity common to public schoolers
- Homeschoolers are more able to be self-employed or self-disciplined without requiring constant supervision.
- Homeschoolers are more likely to embrace faith and have a close relationship with God.
- Homeschoolers pray more often than students in public school, where prayer is censored.
- Homeschoolers perform better on average on all standardized test that are not infested with liberal bias (and even some that are)
- Homeschoolers are more likely to be White according to some sources[1], but less likely according to others [2]
- Homeschoolers are more likely to be from larger families[1]
- Homeschoolers are more likely to have two parents in the home, exactly one of whom works.[1]
- Homeschoolers attain higher literacy rates and reading competence, due to an absence of anti-intellectual peer pressure.
- Homeschoolers are more likely to have at least one parent with a college degree.[1]
- are more likely to be evangelical [2]
(a start; please improve)